Boston Tea Party

The events leading up to, and the reasoning behind, the Boston Tea Party played a more significant role than the event itself. England wanted to keep taxing the colonies for protection from the French and Indian war that had just ended as they were low on money. The colonies refused to pay the tax and England gave the East India Company permission to sell tax free tea to the colonies. This angered the Americans as they saw it as monopoly and giving Colonists an unfair advantage to sell tea. The British also insisted that all tax on that tea was to go directly to them. The colonists were not happy with the idea of handing the British any of their money without representation in England's Parliament so protesters turned back many of the ships in major cities; however Boston's governor refused to allow the ships to leave. This angered the people so bad that they met in The Old South Meeting House and on December 16, 1773 they marched to the ships and poured all the tea out into the waters.